Yuya Sato (novelist)
Yuya Sato | |
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Born |
Hokkaido, Japan | 7 December 1980
Occupation | Writer |
Language | Japanese |
Period | 2001–present |
Genre | Fiction, crime fiction, thriller, science fiction |
Notable awards |
Mephisto Prize (2001) Mishima Prize (2007) |
In this Japanese name, the family name is Sato.
Yuya Sato (佐藤友哉 Satō Yūya, born 1980) is a Japanese novelist from Hokkaido Prefecture. He won the 21st Mephisto Prize for Flicker Style,[1] and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for 1000 Novels and Backbeard.[2] His works have been translated into English, Chinese and Korean.
Kenzaburō Ōe, Kenji Nakagami and especially J. D. Salinger affected Sato's style.
Works in English translation
- Novel
- Dendera, trans. Nathan Collins and Edwin Hawkes (Haikasoru, 2015)
- Short story
This is a stand-alone short story and is also the first chapter of his Novel Gray-Colored Diet Coke. The title was named after Kenji Nakagami's Gray-Colored Coke.
Awards and nominations
- 2001 – Mephisto Prize: Furikka Shiki (Flicker Style) (Novel)
- 2005 – Nominee for Noma Literary New Face Prize: Kodomo-tachi Okoru Okoru Okoru (Children Shout Shit! Shit! Shit!) (Short story collection)
- 2007 – Mishima Yukio Prize: Sen no Shosetsu to Bakkubeado (1000 Novels and Backbeard) (Novel)
- 2007 – Nominee for Noma Literary New Face Prize: Gray-Colored Diet Coke (Novel)
Bibliography
Kagami family series
- Novels
- Flicker Style (フリッカー式 Furikka Shiki) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2001)
- Specific Gravity of the Soul Coated with Enamel (エナメルを塗った魂の比重 Enameru o Nutta Tamashii no Hiju) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2001)
- Sunken Piano (水没ピアノ Suibotsu Piano) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2002)
- Kagami Sisters in the Flying Classroom (鏡姉妹の飛ぶ教室 Kagami Shimai no Tobu Kyoshitsu) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2005)
- Cream Sodium Cyanide (青酸クリームソーダ Seisan Kurimu Soda) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2009)
- Short story collection
- Nine Stories (ナイン・ストーリーズ Nain Sutorizu) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2013)
- "A Perfect Day for Cherryfish" (チェリーフィッシュにうってつけの日) (2004)
- "My Dear Brother Weedy" (わたしのひょろひょろおにいちゃん) (2005)
- "Just Before the War with the Robots" (対ロボット戦争の前夜) (2005)
- "The Mourning Man" (憂い男) (2005)
- "Down at the Rivulet" (小川のほとりで) (2004)
- "For Naomi—with Love in Squalor" (ナオミに捧ぐ 愛も汚辱のうちに) (2005)
- "Pretty My Eyes and Green Mouth" (愛らしき目もと 口は緑) (2005)
- "Cordwainer Smith's Blue Period" (コードウェイナー・スミスの青の時代) (2012)
- "Lady" (レディ) (2005)
- Nine Stories (ナイン・ストーリーズ Nain Sutorizu) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2013)
Standalone novels
Some of these books are not novels but collections of linked short stories.
- Christmas Terror—Invisible/Inventor (クリスマス・テロル invisible × inventor) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2002)
- 1000 Novels and Backbeard (1000の小説とバックベアード) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2007)
- Gray-Colored Diet Coke (灰色のダイエットコカコーラ) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2007)
- Chapter 1:"Gray-Colored Diet Coke"
- Chapter 2:"Red-Colored Moscow Mule"
- Chapter 3:"Black-Colored Pocari Sweat"
- Chapter 4:"Rainbow-Colored Diet Coke with Lemon"
- The End of the End of the World (世界の終わりの終わり) (Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2007)
- Dendera (デンデラ) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2009)
- The Top of the 333 (333のテッペン) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2010)
- Nocturne for the Starry Sky (星の海にむけての夜想曲) (Seikaisha, Tokyo, 2012)
- Bedside Murder Case (ベッドサイド・マーダーケース) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2013)
- Untitled Danganronpa Project (Seikaisha, Tokyo, 2015)[3]
Short story collection
- Children Shout Shit! Shit! Shit! (子供たち怒る怒る怒る) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2005)
- Little House in the Flood (大洪水の小さな家)
- , with a corpse (死体と、)
- Urge (慾望)
- Children Shout Shit! Shit! Shit! (子供たち怒る怒る怒る)
- Thank you for your being born! (生まれてきてくれてありがとう!)
- The Licca-chan Human (リカちゃん人間)
Film adaptations
- Dendera (2011) directed by Daisuke Tengan, the son of Shohei Imamura
References
- ↑ The list of the winners of the Mephisto Prize on Kodansha's website (Japanese)
- ↑ The list of the winners of the Yukio Mishima Prize on Shinchosha's website(Japanese)
- ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-29/novelist-to-launch-new-danganronpa-project-in-2015/.81580
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